Ethics

Question 1

What is Ethics?

Answer 1

Ethics is that branch of philosophy that deals with the human faculty of the will

Question 2

Ethics in a nominal definition

Answer 2

Ethics in Greek is “ethos” which means “custom” or “habit”

Question 3

What differs ethics to morals and morality?

Answer 3

Ethics denotes the theory of right action and the greater good WHILE morals indicate their practice

Question 4

Ethics is not limited to specific ____ and defined ________ but encompasses the whole of _________ and _______, person’s philosophy of life or ___________.

Answer 4

Ethics is not limited to specific acts and defined moral codes but encompasses the whole of moral ideals and behaviors, person’s philosophy of life or Weltanschauung.

Question 5

What are the branches of Ethics?

Answer 5

Descriptive Ethics
Applied Ethics
Meta Ethics
Normative Ethics

Question 7

Define Meta Ethics

Answer 7

Meta Ethics is concerned with what the “good” is.

Question 8

What does Meta means?

Answer 8

Meta means “after” or “beyond”

Question 9

What questions does Meta Ethics addresses?

Answer 9

“What is ‘goodness’?”
“How can we tell what is good from bad?”
What do words ‘good’ ‘bad’ ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ mean?

Question 10

What is Applied Ethics?

Answer 10

It is more particular concerns of ethics on a specialized field.

Question 11

It is the philosophical examination from a moral standpoint of a particular issues in private or public life that are matters of moral judgements.

Answer 11

Applied Ethics

Question 12

Why does Applied Ethics uses philosophical method?

Answer 12

Applied ethics uses philosophical method to identify morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.

Question 13

Composition of Applied Ethics

B B M P E P

Answer 13

Bio Ethics
Business Ethics
Military Ethics
Political Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Publication Ethics

Question 14

What is Bio Ethics?

State an Example

Answer 14

Bio Ethics is more concerned on controversial issues.

Example: Abortion, Euthanasia, Animal Rights, and Commercial

Question 15

What is Business Ethics?

Answer 15

Business ethics deals with the corporate social responsibility and other issues like insider trading.

Question 16

Business ethics maintains the balance between what?

Answer 16

Biot ethics maintains the balance between environmental annulment production and economic development.

Question 17

The ethics that should be followed in conducting war.

Answer 17

Military Ethics

Question 18

What is Military Ethics?

Answer 18

Military Ethics deals with the production of collateral and the prevention of collateral damage.

Question 19

What is Political Ethics

Answer 19

These concerns with what political conducts that should be followed by a politician and political participants.

Question 20

What is descriptive ethics?

Answer 20

Descriptive ethics comes from the search/survey/study that describes the morality of a community.

Question 21

Descriptive ethics as Comparative Ethics

Answer 21

Comparative Ethics which describes the ethical theories objectives and compares them.

Question 22

Descriptive ethics studies people’s beliefs about ______ in different ______.

Answer 22

Descriptive ethics studies people’s beliefs about morality in different context.

Question 23

What is the origin pf the ethical principle?

Answer 23

Divine or Human
Whether moral values are divine truths or simply human activity.
Whether moral judgment are universal or relative, of one kind of many kinds.

Question 24

Where does descriptive ethics compares the ethical theories objectives

Answer 24

In different cultural settings and different time settings:

Question 25

What is Normative Ethics?

Answer 25

Normative Ethics deals with the good or the bad, the rightness and wrongness of one’s act or behaviour.

Question 26

What criteria does normative ethics is concerned with?

Answer 26

it is concerned with criteria of what is morally right and wrong.

Question 27

Normative Ethics includes the formulation of moral rules, what is this moral rules?

Answer 27

Normative ethics includes formulation of moral rules that have direct implications for what human actions, institutions, and ways of life should be like.

Question 28

Normative Ethics as Prescriptive Ethics

Answer 28

It prescribes the individual to perform the action by following the ethical law.
It prescribes the individual to act in a certain way in order to be ethically competent.

Question 29

What are the Compositions of Normative Ethics?

TDCC

Answer 29

Teleological Ethics
Deontological Ethics
Consequential Ethics
Contractarian Ethics

Question 30

What are the 3 Main Elements of the Moral Experience?

Answer 30

The Agent
The Act
The Reason/Framework

Question 31

The course question: ‘What is the good?’ can be answered through what?

Answer 31

Teleological Ethics
Deontological Ethics
Consequential Ethics
Contractarian Ethics

Question 32

In Teleological Ethics, what is the good?

Answer 32

In Teleological Ethics, the good is the virtue of excellence which is built within one’s character manifesting in one’s practical action that constitute a life of flourishing.

Question 33

In Deontological Ethics, what is the good?

Answer 33

In Deontological Ethics, the good is the good will that necessitates one to perform unconditionally the act of duty or to do what is ultimately right and good for everyone regardless of conditions.

Question 34

In Consequential Ethics, what is the good?

Answer 34

In Consequential Ethics, the good is based on the result, outcome or consequence whether qualitative or quantitative.

Question 35

In Contractarian Ethics, what is the good?

Answer 35

In Contractarian Ethics, the good is for the eternity of the community, the society as that which binds the member to achieving a universal goal.

Question 36

It is the inherent endowment in man as his peculiar functioning.

Answer 36

Reasoning or the Rational Capacity

Question 37

What makes the nature of man?

Answer 37

What makes the nature of man is the power of his will, it is known to be our DESIRE.

Question 38

Where is this will directed?

Answer 38

This will is directed to something since its nature is ntentioned towards what it desires.

Question 39

How is the will inclined towards the good?

Answer 39

It is the positioning in ethics that the will is inclined towards the good.

Question 40

What directs the will towards something?

Answer 40

The rational capacity.